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The RI ACLU testified yesterday against a Senate bill to set up a government-appointed council to “provide oversight” of youth sports organizations in the state, including the power to impose fines against coaches, players, parents or officials in response to complaints the council receives arising from youth sporting events. The RI ACLU called such government involvement “unnecessary and inappropriate.” 

The ACLU testified against a bill that would authorize the license suspension of teachers who engage in a strike, defined so broadly as to include a teacher’s “abstaining” even in part “from the full performance of his or her duties in his or her normal manner without permission.”

Ruling in an Access to Public Records Act (APRA) lawsuit the R.I. ACLU filed against Governor Donald Carcieri last August, Superior Court Judge Patricia Hurst today ordered the Governor to release certain requested documents to the ACLU, and further ordered that additional records be turned over to her for in camera (private) review for her determination as to whether they too should be released. In doing so, she rejected motions by the Governor’s attorneys to dismiss the ACLU suit, filed by RI ACLU volunteer attorney Kathleen Managhan.